Being Compatible With Your Partner

New research reveals that it’s the differences, not similarities, that make a relationship work

- Emily Murray

OPPOSITES attract is the kind of cliché you often hear on cheesy love songs and on movies, but new scientific research suggests it really is true. Scientists at the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil compared the DNA of 90 married couples with 152 random pairs of people and discovered that the married couples were more different, genetically speaking, than the random pairs. It turns out that we are biologically programmed to prefer potential partners who are different from us.

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